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1 " Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ. "
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr. , Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes
2 " The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents. "
3 " It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world. It can also be said that as goes the father, so goes the family. "
4 " Another reason it’s wise for a man to view his marriage and not his job as foundational to his life is the biblical idea of union with his wife. We’re called to work, but we’re never called to be in union with our jobs. However, a man is most assuredly called to be in union with his wife. "
5 " We mustn’t live like those with “little faith” who compromise for the sake of food and clothing. What we do matters. And not every job is a good job. "
6 " What if there were no nurseries, or youth groups, or Sunday schools? How, then, would we propose a plan for one generation to “tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done” (Ps. 78:4)? "
7 " The gospel is the glorious, Christ-centered, cross-centered, grace-centered news of what God has done in Jesus Christ (the last Adam) to redeem man from the fall of his federal head (the first Adam) and to give man an eschatological hope that all things will eventually be redeemed in Christ. "